Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing glibc

2014-08-19 Thread Timur Aydin
No other diff program comes even close to BC in terms of diff output quality and merge capability. I am willing to go through much more hoops than this just to be able to use this under linux. And also, to avoid any misrepresentation, their support in determining the cause of the issue was

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread James
Timur Aydin ta at taydin.org writes: I am using a closed source software package on my 64 bit gentoo linux system. The software package is beyond compare by scooter soft. Because of the way this package is built, it needs a specially patched version of glibc. I have patched my existing

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-08-18, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: In cases like that I would do either of the following: 1) Run it inside a VM 2) run it inside a chroot That way you can easily keep everything updated except for that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/08/2014 23:17, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2014-08-18, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: In cases like that I would do either of the following: 1) Run it inside a VM 2) run it inside a chroot That way you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Francisco Ares
2014-08-18 19:03 GMT-03:00 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 18/08/2014 23:17, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2014-08-18, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: In cases like that I would do either of the following: